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From: rusty@GARNET.BERKELEY.EDU
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs
Subject: etc/movemail
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Date: 28 Apr 89 02:06:59 GMT
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If I'm on a system where I don't have root access and I have my own
copy of emacs and /usr/spool/mail is mode 0775 and I'm not in the
group that it's owned by, then movemail bombs because it tries to
create a lock file in /usr/spool/mail.  If I #define MAIL_USE_FLOCK in
movemail.c then movemail seems to work.  Does anybody know if I run
the chance of losing mail due to movemail using flock() when /bin/mail
uses a lock file?